stds-802-16: WirelessHUMAN discussion session on Monday night

["Roger B. Marks" <marks@boulder.nist.gov>]

I'd like to, once again, remind you of the discussion session on 
"Implications of the proposed WirelessHUMAN PAR on the 802 wireless 
program" next Monday night from 8:00-9:30 pm 
<http://ieee802.org/16/human/WirelessHUMAN_tutorial2.pdf>. I will 
coordinate and moderate.

Some 802 participants apparently believe that this PAR is not in the 
best interests of 802; others believe that it would be better off 
within 802.11 <http://ieee802.org/16/human/par_comments.html>. The 
disposition of the PAR lies with the 802 Executive Committee.

I believe that the Monday evening session will strongly influence the 
outcome of the PAR. I have asked our WirelessHUMAN team to prepare 
presentations, and I set up a web area 
<http://www.egroups.com/group/wirelesshuman> for this purpose. So 
far, I haven't seen many signs of life on this topic.

If anyone cares to speak on behalf of the current WirelessHUMAN PAR 
and/or present responses to concerns that have been raised, I suggest 
that you prepare a presentation and ask me for agenda time. It would 
certainly help if the WirelessHUMAN team would organize a coherent 
presentation or set of presentations, but that remains up to the 
Study Group to organize.

I think that the current situation calls for a serious response to 
the issues by those who support the PAR; anything less may endanger 
its success.

Roger


P.S. Here (again) is my suggestion for the WirelessHUMAN Study Group 
agenda at Session #10:
   -Mon afternoon and up to 8 pm: organize for the evening session
   -Mon 8-9:30 pm: advocate a position and look for common ground
   -Tue: discuss reactions to the meeting and develop a revised position
   -Tue at 5 pm: distribute comments received by other WGs
   -Wed by 4 pm: prepare response to comments of other WGs
   -Wed by 4:30 pm: get WG to approve revised PAR at WG Midweek Plenary
   -Wed by 5:00 pm: get revised PAR into boxes of 802 ExCom members
   -Thu before 3 pm: prepare Call For Proposals as described in PAR
   -Thu 3-5 pm: get plans approved at 802.16 Closing Plenary
   -Thu night: attend 802 ExCom meeting during WirelessHUMAN motion